Some people feel that Canada's dependency on the United States is much greater than the dependency of the United States on Canada. Explain how Canada is able to maintain its autonomy, despite having a powerful neighbor along its southern border.

Even though there are aspects that Canada likes to keep in common with the US, in the sense of good external relations. Canada has a variety of differences in relation to the US, its currency, its policies, its patriotism. Canada manages to remain different and autonomous as it targets its own people and culture, which remains different and distant from those that exist in the US.